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Cheese Roasted, to Come Up Aeter Dinner

A toasted bread dish topped with a cheese, egg yolk, butter, mustard, and spice mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Roasted, to Come Up Aeter Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the topping

  1. Mix the cheese, egg yolks, butter, grated bread, mustard, salt, and pepper in a bowl until well combined.

Assemble and bake

  1. Toast some bread and cut it into pieces.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture thickly on the bread pieces.

  3. Place them in a Dutch oven covered with a dish until heated through.

  4. Remove the dish and let the cheese brown slightly.

Serve

  1. Serve hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cheshire cheese
Melts and browns to form the savoury, rich topping.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and add richness and a smooth, set texture when heated.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the topping spread and brown.
Grated bread
Adds body to the mixture and helps it hold together on the toast.
Mustard
Adds sharp, tangy flavour that balances the rich cheese.

The step that matters

Remove the dish and let the cheese brown slightly. Egg yolks and cheese can overcook and turn grainy or rubbery if heated too long. Watch closely so the topping browns lightly while the yolks stay soft and smooth.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, egg, butter, bread, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, egg, butter, bread, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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